Bill Text: NY S03522 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that where a death is caused by any act or event in which alcohol is a factor, such information shall be indicated on the death certificate.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S03522 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S03522-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3522

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 31, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sen. FERNANDEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to death certificates
          for persons whose death is caused by any act or event in which alcohol
          is a factor

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 4141 of the public health  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows:
     3    (e)  Where a death is caused by any act or event in which alcohol is a
     4  factor, such information shall be indicated on the certificate,  includ-
     5  ing any related information as the commissioner may require.
     6    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
     7  have become a law.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04930-01-3